Depressing how little response I get to posts at birdsite. No wonder I never enjoyed it much there.

Here [mastodon home instance] in an hour I have more interaction than there in a day, at least. And the quality, no comparison.

Keep cool, #fediverse 💓

@design_RG Same. Birdsite is really just a circlejerk for celebrities. Not to mention the vast majority of followers are bots. It has no value left for me.

@freemo there are some interesting media presences there, it would be nice to bridge them over here. Scientific American, The Economist, New Yorker, The Atlantic for me, all favourites.

Along with The Guardian, NY Times.

Can we have Botz ??? #fediverse

@design_RG @freemo When I get back to my computer I might make you some via bots.tinysubversions.com. There are probably some bots out there for you, though.

@realcaseyrollins
Thank you, Casey!!

Would love to learn too, maybe you can share your experience and pointers.

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo Here you go!

I found these:
@TheEconomist@birdsite.monster
@NewYorker@birdsite.monster
@TheAtlantic@birdsite.monster
@guardian@birdsite.monster
@nytbot@gab.com
@nytopinion@birdsite.monster

And made these:
@sciam@bots.tinysubversions.com
@sciam@birdsite.monster
@TheEconomist@bots.tinysubversions.com
@NewYorker@bots.tinysubversions.com
@TheAtlantic@bots.tinysubversions.com
@guardian@bots.tinysubversions.com
@nytopinion@bots.tinysubversions.com

I use the BirdWatcher script @n@linuxrocks.online wrote, which makes bots for accounts on both birdsite.monster & bots.tinysubversions. IIRC posts usually are unlisted, and on Birdsite.Minster, their posts are always hidden under a Content Warning.

https://github.com/notanewbie/BirdWatcher

@realcaseyrollins @freemo

Wow, thank you so much!! 😮

Wonderful. Way to go. 👍

@design_RG @freemo No problem man, anytime!

@realcaseyrollins

Just signed up for all the ones on Tinysubs, and SciAm at the birdsite since it seems to have been in operation already, lots of toots.

Are yours tested and running already?

Will spread the word. 🙇

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo The Tinysubs one won't show any signs of life until they tweet, and sometimes it can take a few hours for their tweets to get tooted, but the bots should be running fine.

A lot of the bots I follow have been made in the same way and they work just fine.

@realcaseyrollins @freemo That is awesome.

I see it's a Python file, so you run it locally and enter the URL for the desired feed?

Maybe we could host the SciAm one here?

@design_RG @freemo Perhaps.

I'm experimenting with a bot now using IFTTT & an RSS feed, you should be able to do this same thing here.

Once I figure out how to get everything set up I'll make a post about it.

@design_RG @freemo I used to post all the bots when I made them under the hastag #mobots but I made so many that it became tiresome lol, and bots.tinysubversions had a massive data failure on October, I think, that made it lose all the accounts.